We bought our house in 1995 and there weren’t many plants on the property at the time. We decided to add a pond next to the garage soon after moving in so there was much digging to be done. Somehow in the midst of all that mess and madness, I remember digging up a little stick that was barely alive and barely recognizable as a Forsythia start. It was about a foot tall at the time and had just one sad little branch. I jammed it quickly into a hole at the front of the garden and forgot about it.

Cut to 2020 and here is that little stick today.

This year, the show is particularly bright and cheerful. The shrub tops out at over seven feet tall.

I don’t know which clone this is–maybe Lynwood Gold. Yellow-gold is a tough color for me to deal with in the garden. I have some awful deeply inherent bias against yellow flowers. But I’m glad I’ve made an exception with this plant.

My 2020 plan for this plant will be to prune it back to about five feet tall after it is finished flowering. It doesn’t ask for much else.